| Assembly District. | No. of families. | No. of persons. |
| Eleventh | 927 | 3,329 |
| Nineteenth | 1,018 | 4,024 |
| Twenty-third | 326 | 1,581 |
| Thirty-first | 229 | 854 |
| Total | 2,500 | 9,788 |
In addition to the data of the State Census of 1905, a personal canvass was made in 1909 of 73 families in their homes, having a total of 212 persons. To these were added 153 individuals at one of the evening schools of the city, a total of 365 persons. The localities within which these 365 people lived corresponded in the main to the location of the 2,500 families taken from the State Census of 1905; that is, between Twenty-fifth, Forty-fifth streets, Fifth and Eighth Avenues; Fifty-third, Sixty-fifth streets, west of Sixth Avenue and between One Hundred and Thirtieth and One Hundred and Thirty-sixth streets, Fifth and Seventh Avenues.
To sum up: The assembly districts chosen and the number of families and individuals tabulated from each district are such as to give a fairly accurate description of the clearly segregated wage-earning Negro population of the districts. The study, then, is representative of about one-fourth of the Negro population of Manhattan in 1905, and is so distributed as to be reasonably conclusive for the wage-earning element of the whole Negro population.
The next question is the composition of this toiling Negro population. The general condition of the wage-earning element of this group will now, therefore, engage our attention.
FOOTNOTES:
[37] New York Colonial Doc., i, 553.
[38] O'Callaghan, Laws and Ordinances of New Netherlands, 1637-1674, p. 81.
[39] DuBois, Some Notes on Negroes of New York City, p. 5.
[40] The writer has testimony of contemporary witnesses of these disturbances.